DBMS > atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.82
Rank	#65	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

atoti.io

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.mcobject.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.datastax.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

ActiveViam

DataStax

McObject

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2011

2001

2014

2009

Current release

6.8, April 2020

8.2, 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by defining events

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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Licensing and pricing models

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